2006 · drama · comedy · music
Running with Scissors
Directed by Ryan Murphy2h 2m2006
Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch, and spends his adolescent years as a member of Finch's bizarre extended family.
Our read: Running with Scissors (2006) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive drama · comedy · music entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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